“Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres”

“There s only one way to deal with misery...I say Avoid it ”

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. ”

“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”

“Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.”

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today.”

“Cheer Up the worst is yet to come!”